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On December 15^th, GCS held its first choral concert of the year featuring the 5/6 choir, 7/8 choir, high school Mixed Chorus and Chamber Choir. As members of the Chamber Choir, we enjoyed working toward our goal of putting on a successful concert for our community and put forth months of effort. Our concert turned out to be very successful. No mistakes were made on our part. You might say that our performance was flawless. However, the audience’s performance was far from flawless.

The audience was restless, it seemed. Instead of sitting and being respectful for our performance (and most likely for the other performances), its talking seemed to never cease. During our selection, there were outcries from children which should have been stifled by their parents by using the many exits the principals always point out to the audience before the concert even begins.  Overall, during our performance, it felt like the audience wasn’t even paying attention. Not only was this distracting to us, but it was also very rude.

As if that wasn’t enough, during our big (literally, big) finale, there were several shout-outs to individual members of the choirs from the audience. Following the rude shout-outs were heckles at the choirs as they assembled on and around the stage for the last number of the night. Finally, every choir was in its place, but the idea of performing the last number we had worked on seemed absurd if the audience wasn’t going to appreciate it.

We found it embarrassing to have some in our community that cannot even display proper and respectful concert etiquette for their own children who have worked hard. It was also embarrassing to us that our director made her debut to this audience.

We certainly appreciate those in the audience who displayed respect and appreciation for our music. This is a case of a few bad apples spoiling the whole bunch.